[Zope-dev] Globally unique id's in Zope in a new way

[Jason Spisak]

That sounds like a more elegant descision.  I don't know why, but something
in me said that a wholelly random sting needed to be generated.  Really
only the last integer conflicts.  Boy was I tired last night 8-|

Thanks again,


Pavlos Christoforou writes:

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jason Spisak wrote:
> 
> > 
> > import md5, base64, time, string
> > from urllib import quote
> > from whrandom import choice
> > def unique_id(self):
> >     id=md5.new()
> >     id.update(self.absolute_url())
> >     id.update(str(time.time()))
> >     id=id.digest()
> >     id=string.strip(id)
> >     id=string.strip(base64.encodestring(id))
> >     id=quote(id[:-2])
> >     seq = string.hexdigits + string.lowercase + string.uppercase
> >     new_id = ''
> >     for l in id:
> >         if l == '/' or l == '%':
> >             new_id = new_id + choice(seq)
> >         else:
> >             new_id = new_id + l
> >     return new_id
> > 
> > 
> > If anyone has a more elegant solution I would love to set my tired eyes
> > on it. ;-)
> > 
> > All my best,
> 
> Couldn't you use a combination of ZopeTime and a random integer in the
> range 1-10000000? The whrandom module is available to _ I believe.
> 
> Pavlos
> 


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